(BEDFORD) - The Republican Party of Lawrence County conducted a caucus Monday night at 6 p.m. at the F.O.P headquarters at Murray Forest Park and elect Rodney Fish to fill Chris May's District 1 seat on the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners.

Fish will begin serving as commissioner today

May resigned his District 1 commissioner seat to claim the District 65 House seat in the Indiana General Assembly .

Fish defeated 11 other candidates, winning on the third ballot over Jack Kenworthy and Janie Craig Chenault.